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Description: This edited Ektachrome home movie with titles documents a 1959 street fair, upper Grant Avenue, San Francisco--the center of Beat culture. The film includes shots of filmmaker Dion Vigne and his wife Loreon, artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron and her daughter Crystal, artist Wallace Berman and his wife Shirley, and Beat poet and surrealist Bob Kaufman.
Source: 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm (original reversal)
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1:15: Poet Paddy O'Sullivan selling his book of poems "Weep My Children." Paddy was still on the North Beach scene in the late 1970s when I arrived, still
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wearing the pirate outfit. 2:25 nice shot of a guy selling Beatitude magazine--who is he? 2:38 Looks remarkably like the young Allen Ginsberg but cannot be certain 3:13 close up of poet Bob Kaufman 4:04 Bob Kaufman sitting in the Co-Existence Bagel Shop window 4:32 Nice shot of artist Wallace Berman, with his wife Shirley and, also artist Cameron at 4:44 This film covers much of the same territory and same characters as Jerry Stoll's book "I Am a Lover" documenting the North Beach scene circa 1959. The ceramic and enamel ware shots at the beginning of the film are most likely from the ship that Lorion Vigne ran, corner of Grant and Union I think it was.